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we saw this in the hagel hearings. half the democrats know at least that the chuck hagel has no business being defense secretary but no one will speak up. everyone is putting party ahead of country and we are seeing it on foreign policy. the press took a dive and covered this up. we find out today that there is more stuff about whether or not there were agents in benghazi. hagel said israel was the problem, not iran and the middle east. >>gregg: let me put up a comment by former head of the c.e.o. bin laden unit about john brennan. he is a patchwork of deceit and suck upping to his superiors, and not a word that i could put in. we understand what he is saying there. doug, how do you handicap brennan and hagel? >> i think brennan will probably be confirmed and i believe, given what lindsay graham said today and what senator inhofe has said about hagel, there is a greater chance of a hold being put on the nomination or a filibuster. there has to be some accounting for the uncertainty of brennan and the incompetence of ha
we saw this in the hagel hearings. half the democrats know at least that the chuck hagel has no business being defense secretary but no one will speak up. everyone is putting party ahead of country and we are seeing it on foreign policy. the press took a dive and covered this up. we find out today that there is more stuff about whether or not there were agents in benghazi. hagel said israel was the problem, not iran and the middle east. >>gregg: let me put up a comment by former head of...
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president obama nominated chuck hagel as defense secretary. cheney says hagel was picked so a republican could take the blame for any future cuts to defense spending. in afghanistan. marine general joseph dunford i the new man in charge of international forces in afghanistan. he replaces general john allen. who is nominated to lead nato forces in europe. allen was also exonerated in a pentagon investigation of questionable email exchanges with a florida woman. she was linked to the sex scandal that led to the resignation of c-i-a director david petraeus. dunford says the move is not about a change of command, its about continuity. >> a big day for boeing. the company is analyzing results of flight tests on it's 7-8- 7 planes. the test saturday was the first since the dreamliner was grounded three weeks ago due to battery fires. the 7-8-7 flew out of boeing field in seattle. spending two and a half hours in the air. the dreamliner is the first commercial plane to rely heavily on lithium-ion batteries. back in january -- a battery short-circuite
president obama nominated chuck hagel as defense secretary. cheney says hagel was picked so a republican could take the blame for any future cuts to defense spending. in afghanistan. marine general joseph dunford i the new man in charge of international forces in afghanistan. he replaces general john allen. who is nominated to lead nato forces in europe. allen was also exonerated in a pentagon investigation of questionable email exchanges with a florida woman. she was linked to the sex scandal...
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there there are so many other reasons to hold up chuck hagel not so much so on brennan. but he has every right to do that and he is looking for more information. he has not gotten it yet and i knee because i'm the ranking member on the republican side on armed services. and we have made several requests. haven't come back and i think as a member of the committee that lindsay has every right to do that. >> as we heard during leon panetta's physica testimony toe committee he had one conversation with the president and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey that lasted a half hour during the attack and that was the only time that the president checked in with him and high temperature chairman of the joint chiefs on a personal level. are you concerned about what his level of involvement was during the whole debacle? >> i'm concerned about his level of concern on the thing. if you look at all of the things that happened in april, may, june, july, those are things that caused the red cross to cut and get out of there. the brits did the same thing. i know chri
there there are so many other reasons to hold up chuck hagel not so much so on brennan. but he has every right to do that and he is looking for more information. he has not gotten it yet and i knee because i'm the ranking member on the republican side on armed services. and we have made several requests. haven't come back and i think as a member of the committee that lindsay has every right to do that. >> as we heard during leon panetta's physica testimony toe committee he had one...
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released a statement saying we believe the senate should act swiftly to confirm john brennan and senator hagel. these are critical positions and individual members shouldn't play politics with their nominations. but as you know, that's unlikely to be the end of it. >> how can one senator hold up the entire process of a nominee getting an up and down vote by the fill senate? >> reporter: it's an interesting move here. any senator can put a hold on a nomination. but it's unclear at this point whether that would block things from moving forward. a hold is short of a filibuster. y it's usually used as a negotiating tactic, and we heard he wants more information. no confirmation without information. we'll have to see what ultimately happens in the end. martin? >> we know that the president, after he makes his state of the union address, plans to take his message on the road tuesday night. where is he going? >> reporter: he first heads to asheville, north carolina on wednesday. then atlanta on thursday and he'll be making a stop in chicago. his adoptive hometown on friday and talking about some of t
released a statement saying we believe the senate should act swiftly to confirm john brennan and senator hagel. these are critical positions and individual members shouldn't play politics with their nominations. but as you know, that's unlikely to be the end of it. >> how can one senator hold up the entire process of a nominee getting an up and down vote by the fill senate? >> reporter: it's an interesting move here. any senator can put a hold on a nomination. but it's unclear at...
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chuck hagel has been nominated. and john brennan as cia director. >> justice department memo obtained reveals government officials don't need court order or charge you with a crime. they simply have to determine you are a terror leader and a serious threat to the u.s. law makers are raising concerns. peter ducey has more. >> reporter: democrats and republicans think it's okay if that person has aligned themselves with terrorists trying to attack america. there's disagreement about when it's okay to make that order. republican senator said this morning no american should be executed without a trial. should never get to decide someone's death by flipping through flash cards and saying you want to kill him? i don't know. yeah. let's kill him. agrees decisions should be made by more than one person. i think some independent check on the executive is healthy. according to democrat senator. >> we're going to hold hearings to work on this element. how to mesh the constitutional principle wills and values. >> but any trial
chuck hagel has been nominated. and john brennan as cia director. >> justice department memo obtained reveals government officials don't need court order or charge you with a crime. they simply have to determine you are a terror leader and a serious threat to the u.s. law makers are raising concerns. peter ducey has more. >> reporter: democrats and republicans think it's okay if that person has aligned themselves with terrorists trying to attack america. there's disagreement about...
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he doesn't think chuck hagel is qualified. the choice of brennan to head cia has been particularly controversial. one employee spoke to us about his views on this. here's what he said. >> he was the chief in saudi arabia. we asked him repeatedly to acquire from the saudis information about osama bin laden and al-qaeda. the 9/11 commission has the documents. he said i'm not going to ask the saudis for this information because the questions annoy them. the bigger picture is important. he's been a deliberately deceitful in describing to the american people the kind of threat we're facing from the islamist world, from the islamic world. he said, for example, the term jihad should never be used for the people we're fighting. i really regret the senators don't seem to be more interested in the defense of america. >> it was an amazing interview. you did this this morning. our viewers should know this go ran the bin laden unit. he was at the center of the earth to get bin laden. you asked him point blank do you think brennan pulled ba
he doesn't think chuck hagel is qualified. the choice of brennan to head cia has been particularly controversial. one employee spoke to us about his views on this. here's what he said. >> he was the chief in saudi arabia. we asked him repeatedly to acquire from the saudis information about osama bin laden and al-qaeda. the 9/11 commission has the documents. he said i'm not going to ask the saudis for this information because the questions annoy them. the bigger picture is important. he's...